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• Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that!

  Jeremy Grantham

  War, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.

  Dean H. Kenyon

  Book, Icons, Community

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• The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

  Learned Hand

  Brave, Mind, Mutual

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

  Yul Vazquez

  Mom, Children, Negotiation

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• We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.

  Edward Felten

  Two, Not Good Enough, Three

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• There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Directors, Hollywood, Speak

  "Baz Luhrmann (II)". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin.

  H. Peter Loewer

  Morning, Philosophy, Spring

  H. Peter Loewer (1983). “Peter Loewer's Month by Month Garden Almanac for Indoor & Outdoor Gardening”

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• Ideas run wild without discussion.

  Serge King

  Running, Ideas

  Serge Kahili King (2009). “Urban Shaman”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Safety, Revolution, Censorship

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• The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

  John Dewey

  Art, Philosophy, Divorce

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• While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

  Aristotle

  Facts, Devotion, Abstract

  On Generation and Corruption Book I, Chapter II

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• Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Trust, Feelings, Growth

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• There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.

  John Stuart Mill

  Speech, Done, Development

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.61

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• The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Race, Arbitration

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

  Paul Fussell

  Time, Alarms, Warning

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• The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  School, Views, Issues

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Comte and Hegel (pt. 3), 1952.

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• The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.

  Origen

  Prayer, Father, Thinking

  Origen, Rowan A. Greer (1979). “Origen”, p.86, Paulist Press

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• Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.

  William Graham Sumner

  Art, Effort, Doe

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the environment, disaster planning, Iraq -- all those things and more. This encompasses so many of the major issues of our time.

  Brian Williams

  Race, Class, Iraq

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• This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' .

  Tamar Jacoby

  Gun, Race, Political

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• When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Atheist, Views, Religion

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• What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.

  Carol J. Adams

  Teacher, Children, School

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• It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Men, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.

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• Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Consciousness, Spontaneous

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.businessinsider.com. 2011.

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• My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.

  Benton MacKaye

  Mean, Organization, People

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